CURRENTLY ABANDONED [1.9.x-1.10.x][0.5] Japris Stellar Neighborhood [12/30/20]

[DunaManiac]

NOTE: This mod is currently ABANDONED

Hello and welcome to my development thread of my newest mod, Japris Stellar Neighborhood.

What I found I dislike about a lot of other star system planet packs is that in order to get there you need a warp drive mod. Great Eye Candy, but you can't really do meaningful things there, at least in my opinion.

So JSN plans to create systems that are relatively nearby and force you to go there in order to complete the tech tree, as well as mixing up the main Kerbol System. I also plan on having a wormhole network to take you to some of the farther systems away.

The planned system:

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The Japris System

JAPRIS

1. The Central Black hole, all other systems orbit around it.

ERIGA

1. A water world, near the focal point of the wormhole network.

2. A thick atmosphere, but is poisonous to kerbals.

3. It has one moon, Bop.

BOP

1. Not much terrain change.

2. The focal point of the wormhole network, for unknown reasons.

The Kerbol System

KERBOL

1. It's in a trinary with two other stars, Arayya and Creeon, and the Zoildore system is close by.

FUSCHIA

1. A Small Gas Giant

2. As it's namesake, it's, well pink.

3. Has faint pinkish rings.

4. Has three moons, Desper, Dinin, and Arcas. It also has one quasi-satelite, Echion.

DIDIN

1. A large rocky moon the size of Tylo.

2. Sparsely Cratered.

5. Orbits where Eve used to be.

DESPER

1. A desert moon with a large canyon in it's southern areas.

2. A Thick Oxygenated Atmosphere

3. Instead of ice at it's poles, it's bare rock.

ARCAS

1. Orbits in a highly inclined, retrograde orbit that dives through a gap in Fuischa's rings.

2. High gravity for it's size.

ECHION

1. A quasi-satellite of Fuischa

2. At about 3/4 of the size of Kerbin, it clearly shows size of once holding an atmosphere that protected it from asteroid impacts. The fact that there are no craters on it's surface mean that it must have happened very recently in some sudden event.

3. Has large craggy mountain ranges to explore.

KERBIN

1. No change in terrain or other values.

2. Mun and Minmus have been moved away, Gilly and Resola are now it's only moons.

GILLY

1. Orbits in a near geostationary orbit.

2. Craters added.

3. Is ocasionally visible from the surface of Kerbin.

RESOLA

1. Orbits a little closer to where the Mun used to be.

2. Has several salt flats on it's surface like Minmus does.

ROMILY

1. Orbits nearest to Kerbin.

2. Has enormous glaciers that almost cover the whole planet.

3. The equatorial region is the only place that is unfrozen, but the equatorial region is currently in a tundra like state, with only moss covering the ground.

4. Has two moons, Doosem and Pol.

DOOSEM

1. A large moon larger than the Mun, and orbits extremely close to Romily, but not too close.

2. Has 4 large extinct volcanoes rising out of the lowlands.

POL

1. Now orbits Romily in a distant and inclined orbit.

MUN

1. Terrain changed, large canyons and mountains added.

2. Is locked in a double planet system with Ike.

3. Very thin atmosphere added.

4. Rotates extremely Quickly.

IKE

1. Tidally locked to the Mun.

2. Terrain not changed much, other than craters, faint rings added.

RETUO

1. A large superkerbin 4 times larger than kerbin, and completely vacuum less.

2. Good luck getting off it.

3. It has 3 moons and one submoon.

BOLD

1. A mid sized moon orbiting very close to Retuo.

2. Makes a convenient fuel stop on the way to Retuo's suface.

3. It's proximity to Retuo makes it deceptively easy to get there, it's actually the hardest place to reach in the Retuo system.

EVAP 

1. A small moon with a thick atmosphere. How did this happen you ask? A recent event mysteriously caused a once mighty moon to evaporate, leaving a small rocky core with a thick atmosphere of various gasses, all un-breathable.

ZEP

1. A relatively large moon the size of Romily.

2. Mostly airless except a thin atmosphere, it has one submoon.

ZIP.

1. Zep's submoon.

JOOL

1. Appearance Changed.

2. Has only 3 moons, Laythe, Vall, and Tylo.

LAYTHE

1. No change in appearance other than the fact that the ocean and atmosphere removed.

VALL

1. Changed to be more Europa-Like, enormous canyons now line the surface.

TYLO

1. No change in appearance or orbit.

The Creeon System

CREEON

1. A small white neutron Star.

2. It has 1 planet.

ARALIS

1. The same size as kerbin.

2. An relatively thin atmosphere close to Duna's thickness.

3. Covered with solid lava and basalt flows. Volcanos and craters dot the surface.

ZIN

1. Aralis' moon.

2. Heavily cratered and rotates extremely quickly.

ROA

1. It spins once every two hours

2. As a result, the entire planet is a rather extreme form of an prolate spheriod.

3. It has two moons, Fia and Yilara

FIA

1. Roa's closest and smallest moon.

2. Has a rich mahogany color.

YILARA

1. Roa's farthest and largest moon.

2. Is a kind of greyish color.

The Arayya System

ARAYYA

1. A red dwarf that orbits farther away from Kerbol than Creeon.

2. It has 4 Planets.

CRUCIBLE

1. A super large gas giant.

2. Has an enormous storm on it's northern latitudes.

3. Has 3 moons, Magmina, Sut, and Hote.

MAGMINA

1. The closest moon to Crucible.

2. Has interesting lava terrain.

3. Has a thick poisonous atmosphere.

SUT

1. Looks like a piece of coal.

2. Mostly black and brown.

3. Close to the size of Mun, but a little bigger.

HOTE

1. A small gilly sized moon.

OPPO

1. A Superkerbin 1.25 times larger than Kerbin

2. Has an oxygenated atmosphere slightly thicker than Kerbin.

3. Has watery oceans.

4. Normally it would be tidally locked, but it's large moon allows it to spin at a normal speed.

TOXO

1. It has a relatively thin atmosphere, 0.5 atmospheres. Toxic.

2. It's surface is laced with toxic chemicals.

3. It has several lakes of sludge on its surface.

4. It is half the size of Kerbin.

EVE

1. Now moved into orbit around Arayya.

2. Duna is now it's moon.

3. No change in terrain or atmosphere.

DUNA

1. Now in orbit around Eve.

2. Surface changed to have an egg like appearance due to the tidal stresses with Eve.

3. Canyon like stress marks added close to the bulge.

4. Small lakes and savannahs dot it's surface.

5. Atmosphere made thicker to allow it to be able to suppport some form of life.

MINMUS

1. Surface changed to make it look like it's melting.

2. No change in size.

3. Faint atmsophere added.

The Zoildore System.

[Basic layout]

THERIX
1. A rocky planet with a moon.

2. Has an oxygenated atmosphere and liquid water but no life

3. Surface is covered with crater.

SYTHA

1. A once volcanic moon. Dozens of volcanos cover it's surface.

A large rocky planet.

A large gas giant with 3 moons.

A large gas giant with 2 moons.

A dwarf planet.

 

Completed Planets and Stars.

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Romily

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Legacy (Old):

Gilly

Doosem

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Legacy (Old):

Crucible

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Legacy: (Old)

Creeon

Arayya (NOTE: Arayya still needs to be fixed, so please excuse the red halo in the corona).

Fuischa

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Legacy: (Old)

Dindin (My favorite so far)

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Legacy: (Old)

Desper

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Legacy: (Old)

The Mun:

Ike

Retuo:

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Legacy: (Old)

Bold:

Evap:

https://i.imgur.com/NRtkf3i.png

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Legacy: (Old)

Zep:

Zip:

Sut:

Hote:

Magmina:

Resola:

Oppo:

Toxo:

STATUS: Releasing 0.5

License: CC-BY-NC-SA

Dependencies:

1. KopernicusContinued, under a  GNU Lesser General Public License, currently maintained by forum user @prestja.
2. KopernicusContiuned's dependencies.

Highly Recommended Mods:
1. Kerbal Alarm Clock
2. Interstellar Extended
3.
4.

Compatibility:
1. Planetshine

Installation Instructions: Drag and drop the contents of the GameData folder, NOT the JSN_v0.5 folder.

We now have a discord server. Invite:
https://discord.gg/KwccwXK3Wz

Beauty Screenshots:

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Changelog:

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0.0 Initial Release

0.1 Major System Changes, fixed minor bugs with Crucible, added correct light curves for Arayya and Creeon, and rebalanced lens flares.

0.1.1 Made minor changes to Crucible, added Retuo and Bold.

0.1.2 Added Evap, and made a few minor bug fixes.

0.1.3 Added Zip and Zep, and fixed a bug where landing gear would pass through the ground on Bold and Evap.

0.2 Remade Apearance and Terrain of Romily.

0.3 Revamped Crucible and Fuischa. Added 3 moons to Crucible, Magmina Sut and Hote.

0.3.1 Revamped Doosem, added Oppo and Toxo. Added Planetshine support.

0.4 Revamped Retuo, Evap, Zep, and Desper.

0.5 Revamped Oppo, Bold, Hote, Crucible, Fuischa, and Desper. Added Zoildore, Therix, Sytha, Roa, Fia, Yilara, Cadaver, Echion, and Arcas.

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Edited July 8, 2021 by DunaManiac
Abandoning

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've finished the texture for Fuischa, it might need some tweaking, but I'll see what it looks like in the game first.

Now, off to coding it!

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've finished coding Fuischa for the most part, I'll need to tweak the atmosphere, play with the atmospheric effects a little, and add the rings but it's pretty much finished.

I'll post screenshots when I get back to my PC

EDIT: Alright, here are the pictures! Now to add the rings!

Edited August 11, 2020 by DunaManiac

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've finished Fuischa!

Also, I've finally learned how to create atmsopheric effects, so here they are!

It's beauty picture time:

Also, I've decided to change Ninin's name to Dindin. It sounds better.

[DunaManiac]

Alright, presenting Dindin's WIP color map texture!

Yep. It's green.

Some say from the amount of times kerbals have attempted to land on it...

I plan to put it in a nice orbit just outside Fuischa's rings, where it will have a nice contrast against pink Fuischa versus green Dindin. The darker areas mean it's higher, the lighter areas mean it's lower.

[DunaManiac]

Another update!

The Heightmap and Biome maps for Dindin! Enjoy!

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I'm not done, I got held up, but here's a sneak peak at Dindin! 

[DunaManiac]

Alright everyone! Presenting.... DINDIN!

Honestly, I'm EXTREMELY happy with Dindin, it's probably one of the best planets I have ever made, Fuisha's rings are beautiful and it creates a beautiful balance between the pink and green of Fuischa and Dindin, sorry if I'm bragging a little bit but I think it's great!

Beauty shots.

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[DunaManiac]

Alright, don't have any screenshots but I'm tryingto fix the longstanding issues with the Romily system, I added atmospheric effects to Romily, but one problem I can't seem to solve is the problem of scaled space.

Basically, ScaledSpace thinks that the glaciers of Romily are more flat than the PQS, so it tries to create a nice transition, but it gets stuck in this awful limbo when they're fighting for control, it looks like they're on top of each other.

It's not exactly gamebreaking but it just looks weird asthetically.

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The apple dosen't fall far from the tree... I'm looking at YOU Doosem! You and your weird scaledspace spiky hills...

 

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've cleaned up Crucible and now I'm ready to tackle Desper!

Anyway, I've worked out a pretty good way to make a decent looking textures for custom planets, in 5 steps.

Step 1. Get a blank page, fill it with a base color, such as orange.

Step 2. Create various patches of variations of the theme color, lighter tones, darker tones, but related to the base color.

Step 3. Now, using the smudge tool on GIMP, blend them together. Don't worry if the patches don't stay where they are, unless that's what you want.

Step 4. Here comes the hard part, you have to make sure the texture is seamless. What I've found is a great tool on GIMP is that in the filters tab, there is an option called Map Object. Remove the grid and set the settings to sphere, and update live. Now, change the Y-axis in the orientation tab and set it to 180. This is essentially what the planet will look like in-game, and don't be worried if there isn't a seamless texture. Don't worry, it might take a while, but eventually it can become seamless.

Step 5: PROFIT!

Step 6: (Optional) Add surface features such as canyons, craters, mountains, and other things.

Screenshots coming soon!

[DunaManiac]

Alright, it took me a lot longer than I expected but I finally finished Desper. The texture took me at least 6 hours to finish, but It looks awesome IMO. It's going to need a lot of finagling with the settings with KittopiaTech, and a biome map, bit it's surface is finished.

Screenshots tomorrow, I need to go to bed.

[DunaManiac]

ALRIGHT FINALLY! PRESENTING THE SCREENSHOTS OF DESPER!

What do you think?

Full album here:

https://imgur.com/a/JocjnCA

It's not finished, I still have to change a few things though.

[DunaManiac]

Anyway, I think that the terrain looks gorgeous from the surface, screenshots below.

[Lewie]

 Dang, that is looking good!

@DunaManiac you did an amazing job!

[DunaManiac]

1 minute ago, Lewie said:

 Dang, that is looking good!

@DunaManiac you did an amazing job!

Yeah, the base texture for Desper only took me five minutes, but the Canyon took me hours... but I'm happy with the results.

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've finally finished the biome map for Desper, I think it's okay.

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've tried my hand at modifying existing textures, shown here.

I have to say, I'm reasonably happy with the results, but it's much easier to add surface features on my own terms on a blank texture, but not adding it to an existing texture.

Now, as for the heightmap...

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I'm done with the Mun's textures! Will post screenshots tomorrow.

[DunaManiac]

Alright, here's the heightmap...

And here's what the Mun looks like in the game.

Alright, time for some beauty shots!

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I've added the tenuous atmosphere to the Mun, screenies below.

Since the atmospheric pressure at sea level is only 3 kilopascals, or half of Duna's atmospheric pressure, I'm not sure planes would be possible, but prove me wrong! 

 

[DunaManiac]

Alright, here's Ike's hip new look!

Beauty shots!

Now, for the rings...

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I finally sucseeded in adding rings to Desper!

What do you guys think?

Anyways, back to what I was doing, creating rings for Ike!

[DunaManiac]

Okay, I've been fooling around with Desper again...

(I still haven't modified the atmosphere yet)...

And I reduced the opacity of the rings.

But it definitely looks nice from orbit and the surface.

[DunaManiac]

Here's a pretty good picture to give you a glimpse of what is to come...

[DunaManiac]

Alright, I'm finally announcing release!

Version 0.0 will be out sometime this week!

This is what it will add:

Fuischa, Dindin, Desper, Romily, Doosem, Arayya, Crucible, Creeon

These are the stock planets who's appearence and/or orbit is changed:

Mun, Ike, Gilly, 

These are the stock planet's who's only orbits changed.

Pol, Jool, Eve, Duna, Minmus

These are the stock planets deleted.

Moho, Dres, Eeloo, 

Currently, I am finishing things up for release, so at least some parts of it are in some shape for release.

In other news, I finally added rings to Ike!